Sons and Lovers (1960)

Curiozități

• Bazat pe: Sons and Lovers
• Filmat în: Pinewood Studios
• Premii: 3 · Nominalizări: 7. Inclusiv: Premiul Oscar pentru cea mai bună imagine într-un film alb-negru; National Board of Review: Top Ten Films; National Board of Review Award for Best Film

Sons and Lovers is a 1960 British period drama film directed by Jack Cardiff, adapted by Gavin Lambert and T. E. B. Clarke from D. H. Lawrence's 1913 semi-autobiographical novel. It stars Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller, Mary Ure, and Heather Sears.

Production

American producer Jerry Wald had purchased the film rights to D. H. Lawrence's novel Sons and Lovers in the 1950s, intending to produce the film in the United States, with Montgomery Clift as Paul Morel and Marilyn Monroe as one of his girlfriends.

Dean Stockwell, whose performance was the most heavily criticised in reviews of the film, was given the role of Paul at the insistence of producer Wald, who hoped that an American in the cast would increase the film's box-office appeal in the United States.

The part of Clara Dawes was offered to Joan Collins, but she turned it down, as her then-fiancé Warren Beatty thought the script was "crap" and did not want her to do it. The part went finally to Mary Ure, who was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance.

Location shooting took place near Nottingham in the East Midlands, very close to where Lawrence himself grew up. Interiors were filmed at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire. Freddie Francis said he was hired to lens the film due to the recent success of Room at the Top (1959), for which he had served as cinematographer.

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